Modify POP3 account properties in registry

Question

I want to modify a registry valur using a batch file. I know how to do it using a .reg file but I need to do it using a batch file as there are some more commands in the batch file.

So, I want to change the following value:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Profiles\Outlook\9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676\00000004]

"POP3 Server"=hex:31,00,39,00,32,00,2e,00,30,00,2e,00,30,00,2e,00,31,00,30,00,\
  30,00,00,00

Any idea?

Answer 1

Are you trying to modify the POP3 server name? You should not do that directly in the registry -

• "15" above is for Outlook 2013, so no other version of Outlook will work
• "Outlook" above represents the profile name. What if the user has a different profile name?
• "9375CFF0413111d3B88A00104B2A6676" is the profile section GUID. It is different on each machine.
• 4 is the account id. Also different on different machines.

You need to use either IOlkAccountManager API (C++ or Delphi only - you can see the data in OutlookSpy (I am its author) if you click the IOlkAccountManager button) or Redemption (I am also its author - any language) - its RDOPOPAccount object explicitly exposes the POP3 server name:

 set Session = CreateObject("Redemption.RDOSession")
 Session.Logon("YourProfileName")
 set Accounts = Session.Accounts
 for each Account in Accounts
   if Account.AccountType = 0 Then 'atPOP3
     'MsgBox "POP3 server for account " & Account.Name & ": " & Account.POP3_Server
     if Account.POP3_Server = "server1.com" Then
       Account.POP3_Server = "server2.com"
       Account.Save
     End If
   end if 
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